Honorary Doctor Dominique Tezgor-Kassab Delivers Public Lecture at BSU

Honorary Doctor Dominique Tezgor-Kassab, Professor of Bilkent University, delivered public lecture ‘The History of Museums over the Centuries’ to the professors and graduate students of Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University.
Professor Tezgor introduced the concept of museum and museum studies, and spoke about the earliest museums, establishment of the first museum in Mesopotamia, the earliest social musum in Vatican and the Capitolium of the renaissance period, curio cabinets of the XVI-XVII cc and encyclopedia museums of the Enlightenment times. The famous scientist also touched upon the characteristic to the postmodern museums - entrepreneurship and marketing ideas. The public lecture was sponsored by the Adjara A.R. Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport sub-program ‘Support to Higher Education’.




